Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen… The Middle East is filled with fires that are getting worse. The United States and the United Kingdom attacked the Houthi rebels in Yemen for the first time yesterday. Today the US military has launched a new offensive. But Israel continues its roadmap on its borders and this Saturday Lebanon and Gaza have once again been protagonists, with new attacks. The Prime Minister, Beniamin Netanyahu, has also insisted that “the war will not stop either because of The Hague or because of the threats of the axis of evil.”
In Israel they look at the Red Sea, but above all they continue to look at Gaza and Hamas. Netanyahu has therefore assured in a press conference this Saturday that the Israeli offensive will continue “until the end”, until it ends Hamas, and this is transferred to the front, where the attacks in the strip are concentrated in the Khan Yunis area, in the south of the Palestinian enclave, where the leaders of the Islamist group are believed to be, who remain without being located.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 135 people have died in the Israeli offensive in the last 24 hours. The area has also suffered a communications blackout since yesterday, the seventh in three months.
The objectives that continue to prevail for the Israeli Government, as repeated by its Prime Minister Beniamin Netanyahu, are to end Hamas, prevent Gaza from representing a danger to Israel in the future as well as free the hostages.
The relatives of the Israelis held by Hamas in the strip, however, have increased today, one day before the 100th day of war, their pressure in favor of an agreement that allows their return home and thousands of people have cut off one of Tel Aviv’s main highways.
According to the Palestinian agency Wafa, based on testimonies on the ground, Israeli artillery would have bombed, further away, the refugee camps of Nuseirat and Maghazi, in the Deir al Balah area. And also Rafah, a supposedly safe area, at the southern end of the enclave.
Since the war began, the deaths in Gaza have risen to more than 23,800, which means that 1% of the Gazan population has died while 90% are displaced due to the conflict.
Likewise, the Israeli army attacked Hizbullah positions in several points in southern Lebanon this Saturday in response to the launch of several projectiles against Israel, which fell in open areas.
The border between Israel and Lebanon is experiencing its highest peak of tension since the 2006 war with an intense exchange of fire that has been repeated since the beginning of the Gaza war. It has claimed the lives of at least 218 people, most on the Lebanese side and in the ranks of Hizbullah, which has confirmed some 160 casualties, some of them in Syria. In Israel, 16 people have died, 12 soldiers and four civilians.
